TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nogueras-Iso,Javier
AU  - Zarazaga-Soria,F.Javier
AU  - Muro-Medrano,Pedro R.
ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Geographic Information Metadata for Spatial Data Infrastructures: Resources, Interoperability and Information Retrieval 
SN  - 9783540275084
AV  - GA1-1776 
U1  - 910.285 23
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Berlin, Heidelberg
PB  - Springer Berlin Heidelberg
KW  - Geography
KW  - Earth sciences
KW  - Data structures (Computer science)
KW  - Computers
KW  - Geographical information systems
KW  - Geographical Information Systems/Cartography
KW  - Earth Sciences, general
KW  - Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory
KW  - Information Systems and Communication Service
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Spatial Data Infrastructures and related concepts -- A metadata infrastructure for the management of nested collections -- Interoperability between metadata standards -- The use of disambiguated thesauri to improve information retrieval -- Integrating the concepts within the components of a Spatial Data Infrastructure -- Conclusions and future work
N2  - Metadata play a fundamental role in both DLs and SDIs. Commonly defined as "structured data about data" or "data which describe attributes of a resource" or, more simply, "information about data", it is an essential requirement for locating and evaluating available data. Therefore, this book focuses on the study of different metadata aspects, which contribute to a more efficient use of DLs and SDIs. The three main issues addressed are: the management of nested collections of resources, the interoperability between metadata schemas, and the integration of information retrieval techniques to the discovery services of geographic data catalogs (contributing in this way to avoid metadata content heterogeneity)
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ER  -